Labor Relations

HR managers often dread contract negotiations. At Phoenix-based Salt River Project, managers and employees were proactive. An SRP representative tells how the company learned to settle its major issues ahead of time through relationship-building and inter

Today's HR professionals are required to have a vast amount of knowledge on a wide array of topics. Let Personnel Journal find the experts to answer questions on the personnel issues important to you. Your colleagues asked: How effective is

We hear complaints about how complicated the termination procedure is, yet most of us live in states that recognize at-will employment. It may seem this discrepancy has sneaked up on us, but at-will employment has been marching toward death's door for decades. The culprits may surprise you.

A new contract negotiation process, called target-specific bargaining , is helping organizations make contract talks easier-with fewer headaches. Learn how this team-based, interactive process helped one organization and its bargaining units bury old tensions and sign longer term agreements.